Leptoxis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Family
- Pleuroceridae
- Genus
- Leptoxis
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Leptoxis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Leptoxis
Leptoxis is a genus of freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Pleuroceridae.
Species within this genus inhabit rocky fast-flowing parts of unpolluted and unimpounded mid-sized rivers in the American mid South and the southern Midwest. Species in the subgenus Mudalia inhabit rivers and creeks in the Atlantic drainage.
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Parent Taxon
Child Taxa
- Leptoxis ampla
- Leptoxis arkansensis
- Leptoxis carinata
- Leptoxis clipeata
- Leptoxis compacta
- Leptoxis coosaensis
- Leptoxis dilatata
- Leptoxis foremani
- Leptoxis formosa
- Leptoxis ligata
- Leptoxis lirata
- Leptoxis minor
- Leptoxis occultata
- Leptoxis picta
- Leptoxis plicata
- Leptoxis praerosa
- Leptoxis showalterii
- Leptoxis torrefacta
- Leptoxis trilineata
- Leptoxis umbilicata
- Leptoxis virgata
- Leptoxis vittata























